ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill (July 26, 2001) -- B. Wayne Hughes' Discreet Hero,
winner of the $50,000 Alydar Stakes July 8, looks for his second straight
local score and third consecutive victory overall and should rule the choice
when he heads a field of six 3-year-olds in the $125,000 Round Table Stakes
Saturday at Arlington Park.

The Grade III Round Table, a mile and an eighth dirt race, will
share the spotlight with the Grade III $250,000 Arlington Handicap and the
Grade III $150,000 Modesty Handicap as part of the track's inaugural Million
Preview Day program.

A son of Honour and Glory, Discreet Hero rallied from as much as 10
lengths off the lead to prevail by 4½ lengths in the one-mile Alydar Stakes
here earlier this month. Prior to the Alydar, he rallied from off the pace
to capture a first level allowance race at Churchill Downs June 16. Shane
Laviolette has a return call aboard the Albert Stall Jr.-trained colt.

Of these, San Pedro and Western Pride may have a slight advantage by
virtue of victories over the oval. The former, a Leo Castelli colt,
captured a second-level allowance dash by 3½ lengths July 7, while the
latter, by Way West, was a wire-to-wire victor around two turns in a
third-level allowance race July 15.

Though winless this year, Gift of the Eagle has been competitive in
stakes company and finished third in the $500,000 Lone Star Derby in April.

Horrible Evening, an allowance winner at Churchill in May, ran third in a
$100,000 overnight handicap at the Twin Spires oval June 16 while X Country
rallied for a second-level allowance tally in Louisville July 1.